*Photograph: Ruth Griffin HOME VENUES have been made “a fortress” by Clare’s senior camogie side who line out in their final group game of the National Camogie League this Saturday.
*Photograph: Robert Fairfield / Buffalo Studios Ireland PLANS TO pipe water from Clare and Tipperary to Dublin provided plenty of inspiration for floats in the Killaloe/Ballina St Patrick’s Day parade.
*Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. CLARE’s senior hurlers have jetted off to Portugal for a warm-weather training camp.
Minister Carroll MacNeill is pictured here with John Moran, Mayor of Limerick, and Bernard Gloster CEO HSE. Photograph: Don Moloney MINISTER FOR Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG) has agreed to meet a Clare-based health campaign group following the decision not to build a new hospital in the county.
OLD AND NEW was the theme of the St Patrick’s Day parade in Gort but as ever there was an abundance of colour for the occasion.
*Diarmuid Boyle and Daire Culligan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. ABILITY TO win primary possession was the cornerstone to Clare starting off their Munster U20 football championship with a win.
*Mick O’Dea with his family at the Ennis St Patrick’s Day parade. Photograph: John O’Neill. ‘WICKED for Good’ was the theme of the St Patrick’s Day parade in Ennis where award-winning artist Mick O’Dea was the Grand Marshal.
*Eoin Hayes. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS’ Eoin Hayes has been included in the Munster Regions squad for the FAI amateur inter-provincial tournament.
*Marie McMahon. Photograph: Martin Molloy A LOCAL health group is to initiate a judicial review into the Government’s decision to reconfigure hospital services in the Mid-West.
CLARE footballers Brian McNamara and Tristan O’Callaghan have been named on the Electric Ireland GAA Higher Education rising stars football team of the year.